Lyn Evans
Nacimiento : 1898-02-28, Putney, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1953-06-15
Butcher (uncredited)
El primer día de libertad de tres mujeres que acaban de salir de la cárcel.
Cregeen (uncredited)
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...
Mr. Fisher
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
Vic Kennedy
Marjory gana un premio de belleza en su ciudad y se encuentra desfilando como lady Godiva, aunque no del todo. Acaba compitiendo para el título mundial en Londres.
Jailer
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
Chuck Peters
Canadian World War II veteran John Graham (Robert Preston) works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol (Elizabeth Sellars), is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers.
Lope
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Policewoman
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
The Farmer
Un joven ambicioso y sin escrúpulos (Dennis Price) proyecta vengar la afrenta que la aristocrática familia D'Ascoyne, a la cual pertenece, les ha infligido a él y a su madre. El plan consiste en eliminar a todos los miembros de la familia que le preceden en la sucesión al título de Duque.
Railway Official
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
Policeman in Cafe
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.
Trotter
Dos niños sobreviven a una catástrofe naval y deben sobrevivir en una isla desierta. Adaptación de la famosa novela de Henry De Vere Stacpoole "El lago azul".
Sergeant Pike
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Conductor
A man and his wife take to their house some men they rescue from a road crash and then find they have picked up some dangerous criminals.
Bannock
"Cuarteto" es una película británica con cuatro segmentos, cada uno basado en una historia de W. Somerset Maugham. Cada segmento es presentado por el autor. Fue un éxito y eso propició producir dos secuelas "Trio" (1950) y "Encore" (1951), y popularizó el formato de película de compendio. Los guiones de las historias fueron escritos por R. C. Sherriff.
Waterman
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Inn Landlord
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.
Yokel on Haystack (uncredited)
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
Beaumont
Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
Lorry Driver
Morgan se une a una banda dirigida por Narcy. En su primer encargo, huye de un accidente de coche después de matar a un policía. Pero acaba siendo reconocido como el conductor y es enviado a la cárcel. Buscando venganza se escapa y se dirige a Londres. En el camino lo ayuda una mujer (Sra. Fenshaw), que le encarga el asesinato de su marido...
County Policeman
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
Ames
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
Station Porter (uncredited)
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.